injurious
adjective
harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect.
injuriousness
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a word derived from
injurious.
Example Sentences
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They could be designed and marketed to minimize their excessive lethality and injuriousness while preserving their usefulness to legitimate users.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2018
Automakers created minivans and SUVs, alternative models that provided interior roominess while reducing injuriousness.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2018
It is no less injurious now than it ever was,—we have simply grown used to it,—and it was only when people became used to its injuriousness that the habit began to make great strides.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles B. Towns
Wherever Luther speaks of the injuriousness of good works, it is always sub specie iustificationis, that is to say, viewing good works as entering the article of justification, or the forgiveness of sins.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
Congress entertained an opinion of its injuriousness to the character of the Indians, and passed laws excluding it.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
